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SO RESTED HE BY THE TUMTUM TREE —
AND STOOD AWHILE IN THOUGHT
What an unfortunate time to be short-staffed, when there's so much to do! For days, staff members can be seen bustling about, always on the move. No time to stop and talk — the Queen is preparing a surprise! Staff members seem to positively hum with excitement. Their numbers are replenished in fits and bursts. Groups of new hotel staff appear all at once, until there seems to be even more of them than there were before the disappearances.
They don't seem to understand who you're talking about, if you ask about those disappearances. "Staff turnover happens in every establishment, dear. Why — they might have even gotten a promotion!" Aren't you much more interested in the upcoming trip, anyway?
Now that there are more of them, staff members are eager to expand on the surprise. Oh, to see the gardens and the forest! You Oysters are so fortunate that the Queen wishes to show you the wonders of Wonderland. Of course, the forest can be dangerous — or is it only rumors? The opinion seems to change with every staff member you talk to, and no one can pin down why it might be dangerous. The only consensus seems to be to stay close to your escorts.
And most importantly: please remember the buddy system at all times.
EVENT THREE
Preparations for the Oysters' trip will continue through the 12th. Anyone who would like to utilize the honorary staff prompts from the TDM is welcome to do so, if they haven't already! On the morning of the 13th, characters will be ushered through a back hallway with a series of twists and turns that finally opens into a garden. They will have staff escorts to guide them through the garden and the forest beyond it, and will not return to the hotel for five days.
Throughout the duration of the event (a few days before they leave and a few days after they return to the hotel), characters may find themselves suddenly "bonded" with another character and unable to go more than a dozen feet away from them. Congratulations — the hotel has selected your buddy for the buddy system! The means by which this is enforced is up to you. It can be an invisible cord that physically won't allow them to leave each other, a tugging that pulls them back together, a sensation of pain at being apart and comfort at being together, or any or all of the above. (For ease of threading purposes, this can be stretched far enough that a private conversation can be held without your character's buddy present, but it may be a little unpleasant.)
This bond will escalate fairly quickly from physical proximity to emotional connection. Characters will begin to feel whatever emotions that their buddy is feeling, and it will eventually progress into feeling physical sensations like pain and hunger as well. At this point, characters may no longer need to stay in close physical proximity, as they will still be with each other emotionally. Characters will only be able to break this when they reach an emotional understanding.
Players who want to participate in the buddy system can sign up to have their buddy RNGed, or those who participated in this prompt on the TDM can have their bond carry over if both players want. Characters who reach an emotional understanding with their buddy before the event is over can end up "bonded" to another buddy, if players would like! This second bond would be up to players to choose.
During the trip, characters may occasionally see a tall figure among the staff accompanying them — wearing a dark suit with a ceramic rabbit head. He will never seem to be there when characters look for him, but there will be an opportunity for brief interactions. This is particularly true for characters whose previous actions have drawn attention to themselves.
Throughout the duration of the event (a few days before they leave and a few days after they return to the hotel), characters may find themselves suddenly "bonded" with another character and unable to go more than a dozen feet away from them. Congratulations — the hotel has selected your buddy for the buddy system! The means by which this is enforced is up to you. It can be an invisible cord that physically won't allow them to leave each other, a tugging that pulls them back together, a sensation of pain at being apart and comfort at being together, or any or all of the above. (For ease of threading purposes, this can be stretched far enough that a private conversation can be held without your character's buddy present, but it may be a little unpleasant.)
This bond will escalate fairly quickly from physical proximity to emotional connection. Characters will begin to feel whatever emotions that their buddy is feeling, and it will eventually progress into feeling physical sensations like pain and hunger as well. At this point, characters may no longer need to stay in close physical proximity, as they will still be with each other emotionally. Characters will only be able to break this when they reach an emotional understanding.
Players who want to participate in the buddy system can sign up to have their buddy RNGed, or those who participated in this prompt on the TDM can have their bond carry over if both players want. Characters who reach an emotional understanding with their buddy before the event is over can end up "bonded" to another buddy, if players would like! This second bond would be up to players to choose.
During the trip, characters may occasionally see a tall figure among the staff accompanying them — wearing a dark suit with a ceramic rabbit head. He will never seem to be there when characters look for him, but there will be an opportunity for brief interactions. This is particularly true for characters whose previous actions have drawn attention to themselves.
SIGN-UPS
BUDDY SYSTEM RNG
Comment using the form below if you would like to sign up to have a bond partner for the event randomly selected for your character.
NPC INTERACTION
Sign up using the form below if you're interested in a brief interaction with Mad March! Please be aware that characters who sign up and have already caught the Queen's attention may find themselves specifically sought out, regardless of what they happen to be doing at the time.
FOREST ENCOUNTER
While in the forest, characters may have a particularly dangerous encounter with a creature who lives there! Comment using the form below if you would like to be RNGed for this group encounter.
PLOTTING COMMENT
If you'd like, you can go ahead and use the below code for your plotting needs!
If you have any questions, please leave them on the first comment to this page. For players who participated in the honorary staff prompt on the TDM and have not yet claimed their bonus item from home, please comment here to request it. These bonus items must meet the same requirements as the AC item reward, and cannot be weapons. Happy plotting!
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Aziraphale + Lan Wangji
Event Plans: Aziraphale is the worst camper and he's buttmad about having to do it barefoot. He will probably try to spend most of his time in the gardens and might need some help setting up on camp grounds. He doesn't need to eat to survive, but please feed him some of your food for friendship.
Additionally, he and Crowley picked up some weapons and are planning to give them out to the other guests!! They picked up... a cattleprod, scalpels, knives, a baseball bat, rope, and some archaic instruments. You can ask either me or Rivers to give you one idk how many we actually have but please only request one!
He's also going to go fight the... whatever we're fighting later, and oh yeah that's right meet your new GRANDMASTER OF DEMONIC CULTIVATION. Did you think the title was going to go to one of the other mdzs cast? Well, think again! Nope, Aziraphale is gonna summon the heck outta... Crowley who is the only demon, and who he's partnered with... But if you wanna hear some badass flute solos, let me know.
He also has miracles which are basically super hack powers that include healing, light-making, adding cherries to the middle of your Black Forest Cake that you forgot to add cherries to... you know, miracles! So lmk if you need some rescuing of your own!
CR Desires: SOMEONE PLEASE SAVE HIM FROM CAMPING. That is all.
Character: Lan Wangji (TV)
Event Plans: Lan Wangji is just so grateful to be outside again you guys, like look, Earth. Trees!!! He's gonna be doing the most setting up camp, enjoying the scenery, and probably getting yeeted by whatever creature he's gotta fight. But he'll at least be fighting it as potentially both pairs of WangXian and his brother and ??? the more the merrier!
He'll be doing a lot more self-guided exploring around the general area than Aziraphale, and he also tried to read all the books provided to categorize all the plants if you have any doubts. He has a good amount of basic survival skills, and for the physically attached part of the buddy system, he will come with 1 (one) TV Wei Wuxian in tow.
CR Desires: He def just needs to meet everyone else and also u know, be less of an introvert. But he is very introverted. Extroverts, please adopt him.
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And also of course Twin Jades doing their thing, and Xichen checking in about how his talk with Wei Wuxian went. ....and probably delicately expressing that he is happy to have WWX in the family after he has to move his tent further away from theirs.
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And anjfnwkafwna it will be an embarrassing conversation to have but like u kno bro thank you
Oh and lwj will let lxc know at daily tea that wwx has decided to be reasonable and not hold my accountable for things he hasn't done yet, tho he probs needs therapy....
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He's also getting pretty severely injured in one of the creature fights, would you be up for having Aziraphale heal him up so he doesn't have to go see the Carpenter?
sobs lwj and wwx are just the best brother and brother in law he could ever ask for, lxc is going to have so many complicated feelings about that. He'll be relieved obviously but also just... sad that both of them have to go through this
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he can also give sam literal sweet dreams if he'd like !!
don't worry about it xiongzhang WORRY ABOUT YOURSELF STOP GETTING HURT
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if crowley turns into a snake pls don't run away this time
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You are a very awkward snake.
But if she actually sees it happening or is given to know that the snake is Crowley and not just a very large snake (that talks?) then probably she'll be able to at least cope with it if not be totally on-board with the whole thing.
She's adapted to some weird stuff in her life, what's a snangel (snake angel) or a snemon (snake demon) more or less?
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OF COURSE HES AN AWKWARD SNAKE
this is bullying--!!
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BULLY SNAKES
TO COPE??????
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